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Big Buck World Championships XI: And The Winners Are…
This past weekend was a bit one for Play Mechanix and Raw Thrills, as the companies hosted their biggest Big Buck Hunter Championship event to date. Taking place at the eSports Arena within the Las Vegas Luxor Hotel, plenty of space was available for contestants to duke it out using their virtual hunting skills. »
Halloween 2018: House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn; 20 Years of CarnEvil
Happy Halloween! With the spookiest holiday of the year upon us, arcades have plenty of ways to celebrate. Let’s get into it: House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn Sega Amusements is taking advantage of the fact that they have the perfect game to celebrate the day with. That title, of course, is the brand »
Newsbytes: Sugar Rush Arcade; More Pinball Expo News; Maximum Tune 6 Music;
Welcome to another exciting weekend of arcade news, although the news most people are going crazy about involves lottery jackpots. I don’t have anything like that to share here, so let’s get into the quick news items worthy of a mention. There Is A Sugar Rush Arcade Machine When Disney launched Wreck-It Ralph back »
Second Entry For American Pinball Is Oktoberfest: Pinball On Tap
Pinball Expo 2018 has been in full swing this week, and with the news you hear, one could call this the IAAPA or the E3 of pinball. A number of independent game makers show interesting one-off projects (like this black & white Twilight Zone machine), while the “big guns” in the business also like »
Newsbytes: Voxon Holographic Arcade; Scarlet Dawn Trailer; Pinball Expo 2018 Preview; & More
Well this week was busy! Which I will not complain about…I never like doing back-to-back NEwsbytes during slow weeks. Here’s your collection of quick news to enjoy for the weekend: Voxon Photonics Creates An Arcade Machine We’ve mentioned the latest developments in volumetric displays here before, with an eye towards their potential use in »
UNIS Reveals The Atari PONG Arcade Table (UPDATED)
We’ve been covering the development of the Atari PONG Coffee Table project since it was first unveiled as a Kickstarter project in early 2017. One of the surprises at IAAPA 2017 was the presence of that table at the UNIS booth. UNIS made a deal to manufacturer and distribute the table worldwide, and has »
Konami’s DanceRush Stardom Gets A Limited Release Stateside Via Round1 USA
While Konami hasn’t been absent producing arcade machines over the years, they have occupied a strange place in the North American market. This is because they do not have a real US arcade division anymore, with people dedicated to sales, development & support across distribution networks here. When a new title receives an English »
Popular App Slither.Io Makes The Jump To Arcades Via Raw Thrills
Not long before Space Invaders dominated the gaming scene, “Snake” games did. Now, there wasn’t any game actually called Snake that was in arcades – instead it was games like Comotion or Dominos. But the concept would stick around through a number of variations over the years, including the Snake on graphical calculators that »
New Locations: EightyThree 2.0(OK); Outer Orbit (CA); Andretti’s (TX); Malibu Jack’s (KY); GameTime (FL) & More
It’s been more than a month since we looked new arcade locations that are opening their doors out there, so let’s jump into it! I’m going to break this one into small independent locations followed by FECs The Indies EightyThree 2.0 (Moore, OK) Mentioned on the blog and our social media a little while »
Newsbytes: Mario Kart VR In the USA; EAS 2018 & Race Craft; More Japanese Game News
Happy weekend readers, here are some items to share for the weekend. As a note, I am getting close to producing a print copy of the Arcade Heroes Arcade Almanac, but it has been a slow process thanks to the need for physically resizing each page by hand, as each is an image as »
Arcade Fighters Update: Street Fighter V; Dead Or Alive 6; Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2
It’s to to catch up on some news that has come out of Japan this week, all involving the beloved genre of fighting games. Street Fighter V Finally Coming To Arcades Street Fighter was always an arcade game first and console game second, but times and culture change, leading Capcom to give consoles the »
Newsbytes: Tokyo Game Show 2018; Roller Coaster Dumps VR; Merchandiser Thief
Welcome to this week’s Newsbytes, where I curate some quick arcade news items as opposed to giving them a lengthy post. Before we get to that, I’d just like to bring attention to an honor we received this week from one website called Feedspot. Feedspot aggregates blogs, channels and social media feeds into one »
